Post-9/11 War Factoids: Less Than 1 Percent of Americans Fight These Wars

For this week's cover story, New Times tagged along with a group of combat-wounded veterans on an alligator hunt in a Florida swamp. All the men were Purple Heart recipients injured while serving in Iraq or Afghanistan. To gain perspective on their lives after the war, here are a few salient facts, courtesy of a recent survey by the Pew Research Center:

Just one-half of 1 percent of Americans have fought in the post-9/11 wars, serving in an all-volunteer military.

Thirty-seven percent of the veterans who served in the post-9/11 wars say they suffer from posttraumatic stress.

More than 80 percent of those veterans say the American public "has little or no understanding of the problems that those in the military face."

96 percent of the post-9/11 veterans are proud of their military service.

Yet just one-third of them say that, considering the costs and benefits to the U.S., the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have both been worth fighting.